User FunctionsDon't have an account yet? Sign up as a New User Lost your password? who's online
Guest Users: 18 what's new
STORIESNo new storiesCOMMENTS last 2 daysNo new commentsEventsThere are no upcoming events last 10 posts
Friday27-JunThursday26-JunWednesday25-JunTuesday24-JunMonday23-JunSunday22-Jun |
"Whew..."Saturday, September 25 2004 @ 04:46 PM
TrackbackTrackback URL for this entry: http://candleboy.com/candleblog/trackback.php/2004092516463439 No trackback comments for this entry.Lenny
Authored by: Flatiron Dante on
Saturday, September 25 2004 @ 09:55 PM
There's a scene in DeLillo's "Underworld" that takes place during the Cuban Missile Crisis where Lenny Bruce is on stage and his biggest laugh line is shouting "we're all gonna DIE!!!" The audience just goes nuts. I always thought that was a little odd until the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. I was out with a bunch of friends at a dimly lit bar later in September/October 2001 and we were discussing that line and at the time it was one of the funniest things we had ever heard. I guess it's like the scene at the end of the "Wild Bunch" when the gunfighters all look at each other and start laughing because they know they're not getting out alive.
"Whew..."
Authored by: Anonymous on
Sunday, September 26 2004 @ 02:59 AM
How close does an asteroid have to come to create some kind of effect?
If Eskimos get polaroids What do astronauts get? Asteroids! "Whew..."
Authored by: billsimmon on
Sunday, September 26 2004 @ 03:21 AM
How close does an asteroid have to come to create some kind of effect?
zero feet. Boom. "Whew..."
Authored by: MarkS on
Sunday, September 26 2004 @ 01:39 PM
This is a test comment by Bill pretending to be MarkS. Is it working?
"Whew..."
Authored by: Anonymous on
Sunday, September 26 2004 @ 06:48 PM
it depends on the size of the asteroid and what you call 'effect'. if the thing was the size of the empire state building (small) and if it was projected to miss earth by about 100 miles there would be widespread panic because nobody would trust the trajectory and everyone would just freak the fuck out. now that would be an 'effect'. har.
"Whew..."
Authored by: billsimmon on
Sunday, September 26 2004 @ 07:58 PM
And, in fact, people are freaking out over this one and it has a 0% chance of hitting us. Doomsday email chains are claiming it has a 60% chance and the like but it's all bullshit.
Physically, an asteroid would have to make contact with the Earth's atmosphere to have an "effect." Then, depending on the size, speed and angle of trajectory, the effect could be anything from a small fireball whizzing across the sky to the end of all life on Earth. Well
Authored by: Flatiron Dante on
Sunday, September 26 2004 @ 10:16 PM
My comment above may not have been well-explained, but the point was that there's always something out there heading our way and that you never know how you're going to react to it until it happens. How would you react if you knew there was a 5 or 10 percent chance that this asteroid would hit us? Right after I got some scary health news last year, I went sailing in NY harbor with a friend. We got out past the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge and were making our way back to Manhattan when we realized the storm we expected much later in the day had decided to hit us three hours early, when we were in the water between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Once we knew we had to weather the thunderstorm (which was a really bad, Louisiana-style deluge) in our 26' sailboat, we had a moment much like the 'Wild Bunch' scene I described, where we just had to laugh. It was pretty exhilarating on a micro (storm) and macro (scary health news) level.
"Whew..."
Authored by: MarkS on
Sunday, September 26 2004 @ 10:34 PM
It seems to be working now. I just allowed cookies.
I was wondering if a near miss would still have some kind of effect like little mini roids raining down, or if the asteroid's wake would create some kind of effect. I guess it would take an impact, or actual contact to have kind of physical efect. Yeah, people freaking out would certainly be an effect. Flatiron Dante, I know what you mean about the double whammy and getting caught out like that. "Whew..."
Authored by: billsimmon on
Sunday, September 26 2004 @ 11:10 PM
Mini asteroids raining down is strictly hollywood baloney and if you think about it, there is no "wake" in space as there is no medium (like water of air) for the wake to be made of. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
"Whew..."
Authored by: MarkS on
Monday, September 27 2004 @ 07:53 PM
I kinda figured.
In space, no one can hear yer mom scream. |
